The smart, sassy, and Texas-loving Sandy Cheeks made her big screen appearance at the beginning of August on Netflix. This movie featured Sandy Cheeks with Spongebob alongside her attempting to save Bikini Bottom from the evil B.O.O.T.S laboratory. 

With high hopes from Spongebob fans, this movie was an absolute letdown. The leading cause of this was the animation and CGI. Going in a different direction than normal animation, Netflix went for a more realistic type of animation while keeping the background in some area’s real-life images. Overall, the animation felt unorganized and bounced around from scene to scene. It feels as though the film could have been something good if they had not changed the style that most fans are used to. 

The next letdown of this movie was the plot. It felt dull and half-finished. While watching I found myself half asleep due to the lack of any large strides in a direction. It was hard to find a reason to keep watching after 30 minutes. A series of plot changes made the movie incredibly hard to follow leaving me wondering at the end what and why I had just watched that whole movie. The plot did dive further into the backstory of Sandy Cheeks, which has always drawn both me and other viewers in. My final critique of the plot is its inability to stay on one line. It felt stretched out due to the main villain containing multiple plot twists and a difficult-to-understand backstory.

The final critical failure of this movie is a lack of comedy. I blame this mostly on the problems , but nonetheless it is difficult to find comedy in most aspects of this movie’s comedic aspects. One is the main villain’s entire persona. It begins with her name, “Sue Nahmee,” (play on words for tusnami), the first fault for this is it just insnt funny. I understand this movie was made for children, yet my younger cousin, who fits into the age bracket, failed to understand the joke. I found it gave me a slight chuckle however through out the whole movie the joke is horribly played out. This in combination with sandys horrible jokes and the lack of comedic relief made this comedy movie horribly un-comedic. 

With all that being said I can see how the movie would be interesting to a younger audience, however, it does not live up to the standard set by the previous Spongebob movies. Because of that, it gets a 3.4/10 on the Kramer reichter scale.